{"id":724829,"date":"2026-06-25T09:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724829\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:08:17","slug":"te-chig-okonkwo-feels-he-can-finally-just-unleash-in-commanders-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724829\/","title":{"rendered":"TE Chig Okonkwo feels he &#8220;can finally just unleash&#8221; in Commanders offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tight end Chig Okonkwo signed with the Commanders after posting 162 catches for the Titans the last three seasons and he believes the move is going to be a fruitful one for him. <\/p>\n<p>While Okonkwo was productive in Tennessee, he\u2019s already found \u201cso many more opportunities I\u2019ve had to just run different things\u201d since joining the Commanders and thinks that the offense being put together by offensive coordinator David Blough will allow him to showcase \u201cmy true talents and abilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like this is the place where I <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commanders.com\/news\/chig-okonkwo-jayden-daniels-commanders-offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">can finally just unleash<\/a>,\u201d Okonkwo said, via the team\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>Jayden Daniels made frequent use of Zach Ertz as a target during the 2024 season, so he\u2019s no stranger to throwing to tight ends and it sounds like the expectation in Washington will be for more of the same despite the change in play callers since the end of the 2025 campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tight end Chig Okonkwo signed with the Commanders after posting 162 catches for the Titans the last three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-724829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}